Making Shaker Cabinet Doors With A Router

How to inset the doors into a face frame for a high end look if you ve been reading this blog for a while then you ve probably seen me write about building shaker cabinet doors before.

Making shaker cabinet doors with a router.

If you have a router table it may not be as hard as you think to make your own. Instead of gel staining or chalk painting these ones i decided to just get rid of the oak doors and to make shaker cabinet doors on my own and i didn t even use a router. Use my existing kitchen cabinet doors add shaker trim and paint them blue. So today we re going to walk you through how to make shaker cabinet doors without a router.

These are simple shaker style cabinet doors and are not very expensive to make but i warn you they are a little time consuming. Learn how to build cabinet door frames using a rail and stile router bit set. We ll use a kreg jig instead. 1 3 poplar boards recommended for paint.

This design uses typical tools from your work shop without expensive cabinet making router bits. Plus there are all kinds of profiles you can cut using the same process with different router bits. Build your own new diy cabinet doors with this tutorial. Shaker style can mean different things to different people.

But i still had to make shaker cabinet doors for the big cabinet that i built. To make a true shaker style cabinet you need a router but we don t have a router. Most cabinet doors especially if they are made in a factory have frames tha. Just saying all that made me bone tired because i knew it would be a ton of work.

A while back we took a look at the infinity tongue and groove router bit sets for making mission style and shaker style doors. Here are four samples that are reminiscent of the shaker design elements. In this tutorial i am going to show you how i made shaker style drawer fronts using a router table and rail and stile router bits. I really love the look of shaker style cabinet doors and i wanted to lighten up my hallway since it s so dark up there.

I ve built them for both my large built in cabinet the tv stand and they were the same style doors i built for our first home.